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<span class=large>HOSEA</span>
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CHAPTER 12
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The Lord uses prophets and visions and similitudes to guide his people, but they become rich and will not wait on the Lord—Ephraim provoked him most bitterly.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/12/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 28: 1 (1-8)."><span class='smallcaps'>Ephraim</span></a> feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/12/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hosea 5: 13.">covenant</a> with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath also a <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/12/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 4: 1 (1-2).">controversy</a> with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
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&#182; He took his brother by the <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/12/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 25: 26.">heel</a> in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:
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Yea, he had power over the <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/12/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Angels.">angel</a>, and <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/12/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 32: 28 (24-28).">prevailed</a>: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him <i>in</i> <sup>c</sup><a href="hosea/12/4c" mark="c" type="A" title="Gen. 28: 13 (10-16).">Beth-el</a>, and there he spake with <sup>d</sup><a href="hosea/12/4d" mark="d" type="D" title="OR him.">us</a>;
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Even the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of hosts; the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> his <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/12/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 3: 15 (13-15).">memorial</a>.
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Therefore <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/12/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Conversion.">turn</a> thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
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&#182; <i>He is</i> a merchant, the <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/12/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Micah 6: 11.">balances</a> of deceit <i>are</i> in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
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And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: <i>in</i> all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that <i>were</i> sin.
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And I <i>that am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/12/9a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR tents; Lev. 23: 34.">tabernacles</a>, as in the days of the solemn feast.
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I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
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<i>Is there</i> iniquity <i>in</i> Gilead?  surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/12/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 9: 15 (13-15).">Gilgal</a>; yea, their altars <i>are</i> as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
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And Jacob fled into the country of <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/12/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 28: 5; Deut. 26: 5.">Syria</a>, and Israel served for a <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/12/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 29: 20 (15-28).">wife</a>, and for a wife he kept <i>sheep.</i>
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And by a <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/12/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 17: 24 (24-26).">prophet</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/12/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 12: 50."><span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span></a> brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
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Ephraim provoked <i>him</i> to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/12/14a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE guilt.">blood</a> upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.
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